The Scientific Revolution helped influence the medical field during the Industrial Revolution and this helped during the 19th Century, time in which was the Mexican Independence. Knowledge of the stomach, of its functions and about diseases were passed down from era to era and that constitutes the base of what we know now. Each time they had more and more technology to keep investigating the stomach and all of its components. What they found back then is very accurate and closely related to what we know now and this can be proved by scientific investigation and experimentation.
During the Scientific Revolution it was thought that the food in the process of digestion begins in the stomach, where the food starts gets broken down and that it played an important part of the immune system, because it helped fight infections that occur in it. They believed that when an individual was embarrassed, or shy; when he or she blushed the inner part of our stomach changes also to the colors red or pink, or that if people were thin they had a smaller stomach compared to people who were fat; which supposedly had bigger stomachs. Then, when the Industrial Revolution arrived, scientists already know about the process of digestion and drew out conclusions that after storing food in the stomach, it is broken down into a mixture called chime and then discovered that it uses pepsin and peptidase to break down bigger molecules. After this, the mixture is passed into the small intestine where it is finished digesting.
Drawings of how scientists, from the Scientific Revolution, thought the stomach looked like and its place on the body.
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